Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.
Youre always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully theyre all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadnt done on the first one.
Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.
Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.
I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons. . . some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.
I tend to write better when I'm not touring.
I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.
The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.